Why Jamaica is seeking $10bn in reparations from the UK
Hundreds of thousands of enslaved Africans toiled in Jamaica under more than 300 years of British rule.
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Hundreds of thousands of enslaved Africans toiled in Jamaica under more than 300 years of British rule.
Eve Irvine is pleased to welcome Jamaicaโs Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Olivia Grange. According to Grange, the countryโs reparations initiative attempts to shift the debate over British slavery from the terrain of political discretion to that of legal accountability. Rather than beginning with the question of what Britain should pay, Grange insists on a logically prior question: was the capture, transportation and chattel enslavement of Africans in Jamaica ever lawful in the first place? Jamaicaโs petition therefore asks King Charles III, in his capacity as King of Jamaica, to refer three questions to the Privy Council concerning English law, international law and Britainโs possible obligation to provide a reparatory remedy.
Petition to King Charles questions the legality of slavery under English law and UKโs responsibility for reparations.